I posted about Bitcoin’s security model on LinkedIn and got this response back. We are still early.

Our tech evolved. Our medicine evolved. Our money didn’t. Bitcoin is the missing piece of the modern world.

Exhausted but really proud to have run today’s Cardiff Half Marathon for Tenovus Cancer Care!

The UK government has just made it clear. They don’t care what the people think. Despite nearly 3 million signatures on the anti-Digital ID petition, Parliament is pushing ahead anyway. Freedom of choice? Gone. Privacy? Undermined. Work without a government-approved ID? Not allowed. Bitcoin provides a way to opt out of financial control. It won’t solve everything but it’s a start.

Don’t trade your time for money they can print.

Although I disagree with Peter Schiff on Bitcoin, I have huge respect for his ability to articulate what’s broken in the credit-based system. Few have done more to raise awareness and explain the problem so clearly. Highly recommend this book to anyone.

Following on from my post last week and the messages I received from it, I wanted to share a mistake I made in tech startups and one I still see other founders making today. I fell for the “build it and they will come” mantra. I came up with what I thought was a great idea and, before I could even say the words “market research” or “business model,” I dove straight into building. Building is exciting. The possibilities feel endless. It’s a thrill to create something that could change the world. But I never stopped to ask the basics. Who is this for exactly? How will it be sustainable? Is what I’m building valuable enough that people will actually pay for it? In business, inaction can kill you just as much as snap decisions. But there are fundamental questions every founder should ask before throwing money or time at an idea. The best approach I’ve found is Paul Graham’s “do things that don’t scale” method. Rather than building a £20k MVP, focus on a cheap, manual, inefficient way to prove people care about what you’re building. It’s not flashy, it’s not pretty, but it quickly tells you whether your idea has legs so you can spend more time building what people actually want.

I didn’t choose the Bitcoin life… the inflation rate chose it for me.

This bitcoin bull market is not over yet.

Work hard. Stack sats. Eat well. Sleep well. Run outside. Love hard. Repeat 🔁

As someone who’s spent years breaking systems, I find Bitcoin’s security design fascinating. It’s the combustion of energy + consensus that makes it work. • Miners expend real energy to secure the network. • Nodes enforce consensus rules, ensuring no one can create extra coins or rewrite history. • Every transaction is checked across thousands of independent participants. The magic is in the combination; energy expenditure makes attacks expensive, and consensus via nodes ensures agreement without trusting anyone. In the digital world, changing systems is usually frictionless. With Bitcoin, change is tied to physical cost. You can’t just push an update or flip a switch, you need to burn real resources. That’s what makes attacks prohibitively expensive and the system uniquely resilient. Another fascinating aspect is how consensus protects the network. If miners or large institutions want to change the rules of Bitcoin, that’s fine! They can fork off and create their own chain. The main Bitcoin network, enforced by nodes following the existing consensus rules, keeps running as before. This means no single group can force changes on everyone, and the integrity of the system is maintained by the collective agreement of participants rather than any central authority. From a cyber security perspective it’s brilliant. No central point of failure, no authority to compromise, yet globally robust against adversaries. It’s trust without trusting. Bitcoin isn’t just money, it’s a masterclass in security architecture. Elegant. Transparent. Built to last.

My thoughts on Bitcoin’s current dip after casually watching it go from $69,000 to $16,000 in the last cycle.

I don’t need a new car to prove anything. I’d rather stack Bitcoin and buy time, freedom, and peace of mind. Priorities.

It’s crazy that people think Bitcoin has been boring this year when it’s up like 75%.

Bitcoiners are great at pointing out what’s broken in the system. But we sometimes forget how lucky we are to live in a time where Bitcoin exists. Before, you just had to accept currency debasement. Now, anyone, anywhere can opt out. That’s a privilege.

When I bought my house in 2017, it was worth 24.6 Bitcoin. Now it’s worth 3.7 Bitcoin. Yet when priced in £s, it’s gone up by 35%. If you save in £s you afford less over time. If you save in BTC the picture looks very different.

Since Oct 2023 I’ve mostly lived off Bitcoin. Back then 1 BTC was about £28.5k, today it’s ~£85k. That’s made life feel around 3x more affordable than my peers and it means I get to save more each month. Sometimes the impact of Bitcoin shows up most in the everyday stuff.

2 years ago today I walked away from the first startup I founded. I poured my heart and soul into it for years, was incredibly proud of what we were building, and felt like we were finally gaining traction. But in 2023, after a string of family health scares and the news that we had a baby on the way, I realised I couldn’t keep going the way I was. I had made a classic mistake: building product first and trying to figure out the business model later (I definitely would not recommend this). That meant I was constantly playing catch up. 80-hour weeks became the norm, and the people I was supposedly “doing this for” were the ones I was neglecting most. It took those life events to shake me into realising something I’d overlooked: hustling, titles, social media followers, even “success” itself doesn’t matter if you’re sacrificing what’s truly important. Don’t get me wrong, I believe you can build something meaningful and still have time for family. But when your job or business is your life, that’s when it becomes dangerous. At the end of the day, meaningful relationships are the only thing that carry through every stage of your life. Everything else is temporary.

Inflation and years in which your purchasing power is halved: 2% (the target) = 35 years 4% = 17 years 7% = 10 years 10% = 7 years 14% = 5 years 17% = 4 years 20% = 3.5 years Bitcoin fixes this.

Most people think of “digital ID” as just a card on your phone. The real issue is the centralised database behind it. Linking everything about you into one system doesn’t just create a surveillance risk. It creates a massive security vulnerability. Once that data is breached or misused, you can’t put it back in the box. It also hands government unprecedented control. The ability to link, track, or even restrict access to everyday life is not something any free society should give up lightly. Privacy isn’t just about liberty, it’s about safety. Centralising sensitive data in this way puts both at risk.